[Congressman Billybob]

Wrote this column a week early. The subject is lively on FR, in the blogosphere, and finally in the MSM. So the column goes up early.

Lemme know what y'all think of it.

[rawcatslyentist]

Stop Dick the Turbin Durbin before he aids our enemy again!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!!

Link to contact your senator
Link to contact your representative

ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.

He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

Don't be a know nothing do nothing dumbocrap!

"Hitlery's legal stance on everything

[OldFriend]

Chris Wallace went after Durbin big time this morning on WABC radio.

Said there was no excuse for what he said and that it was unforgivable.

[Tax-chick]

Very good. I think the FR poll about Durbin's comments was flawed, in that it didn't include "hawg-stupid" as a choice.

[Texas Eagle]

Here's what I find interesting about Dickie's diatribe. We don't hear the home countries of these detainees demanding their return.

Could it be that the government of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, etc. don't want to have to deal with these people?

[Billthedrill]

Nothing much a staff can do about a guy determined to make a fool of himself. They can feed him facts, but not good taste, a sense of proportion, or enough political smarts to know where the minefields lay. That's supposed to be a job requirement, but now and then a Durbin reminds us that it's easy to get elected without it.

[SerpentDove]

I love it. And I love the Silence of the Dems.

America is getting an eyeful of these enemies of ours. And it ain't pretty.

Thanks for posting this.

[glock rocks]

We just call him Dick.

[T'wit]

>> he went on the Senate floor and revealed himself as the south end of a northbound horse.

"...south end of a northbound horse" -- what does this mean? I wish you wouldn't write in such fancy language, Rep. BillyBob.

[tiredoflaundry]

Great job !

[T'wit]

>> "south end of a northbound horse"

Hey! I think I'm getting it! It looks just like the north end of a southbound horse!

Then if you lead the two horses away, whatever is left on the pavement is Dickie Durbin.

[Aegedius]

Good one, John.

Here is the quote from the Congressional Record, with one slight correction:

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others— that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator’s time brain has expired.
Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President,...

[537cant be wrong]

i think it is a brilliant summation of the situation

i really enjoy all your posts and articles.

[Tacis]

Durbin's treasonous words give greater aid and comfort to our enemies that did those of Hanoi Jane and Traitor John Kerry during the Viet Nam war. Durbin's name will become synonymous with Quisling and Benedict Arnold. There is no question that such un-American treachery and collaboration during time of war would cause an honorable man to resign his public office. Unfortunately, we are dealing with a scumbag democrat, more interested in reacquiring his long lost perqs that he'd turn against his country and the brave folks that defend it. Durbin MUST resign!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2005/jun/17/061700840.html
Senator Regrets if Remarks Misunderstood

Don't we feel better now?

[xzins]

Excellent article, cbb.

We need another article that asks, "What do SANE armies do with dangerous, captured, battlefield combatants?"

[carlr]

I have posted before that Durbin was speaking directly to an overhead camera,not looking around as if to be addressing fellow Senators or even a janitor.
This was a deliberate effort to try to start a MSM feeding frenzy about gitmo and supposed abuses there.
There is no mistaking what he said or misunderstanding the context.
I have contacted my Congressman,John Sweeney asking him to introduce a resolution in the House condemning Sen.Durbins comparisons.
I don`t pretend to think that will happen on my request but if all here contact their Senators and Representatives there may be some desire to hold him and others accountable for their words and actions.

[glock rocks]

Excellent article Congressman.

Armor ping, B4.

[tomahawk]

Good job!

[JasonC]

It is good.

I have "tacks" to suggest in addition.

We get it, we get it. Our soldiers are Nazis, Bush is a Nazi, Rumsfeld is a Nazi, the people in the two towers were Nazis, Republicans are all Nazis in pinstripes, the pope is a Nazi, Sharon is a Nazi, all the Israelis are Nazis. OK. But is Hussein a Nazi? Are Baathists Nazis? Are people who saw off heads of Jews on videotape for purposes of recruitment, Nazis? We want to know Durbin's opinion on those interesting subjects. And whether he thinks Nazis should be left alone, kowtowed to, appeased, given their own country to rule despotically. Is Durbin against Nazis or in favor of them? Was he trying to attack our soldiers or to praise them? We'd like him to go on the record on that. Because I swear we can't tell.

Then to Stalinists. Since when does the left oppose Stalinists? Are there any Stalinists in the peace movement? Did John Kerry ever work for Stalinists? Did the left oppose communists or opposed anti-communists? Did they defend Hiss or attack him? Did they defend people who literally gave atom bombs to Stalin himself, or condemn them? Would Durbin care to do so now? Did they praise to the skies those who revealed the Gulag, or smear them? Do they support or oppose the regimes still running gulags today? Do they call for them to be paid and appeased, or to be confronted? Did leftist reporters explain the terror famines as they were happening, or deny them, explain them away. Did they support "revolutionary terror" or denounce it? Would Durbin like to take this opportunity to denounce it?

Then to third world killing fields by indigenous tyrants. Did the left support those who fought the Kymer Rouge, or the Kymer Rouge? Do they e.g. read Chomsky who praised them, or revile Chomsky for doing so? If they pretend to blame Nixon, do they blame Churchill for Auschwitz? Did they support Nixon fighting against communism in southeast Asia, or call for us to stay out of it? Did they predict the crimes of the Kymer Rouge, or make up crimes to pin on US soldiers? Did they denounce the Kymer Rouge for cutting off heads in the manner of Ghengis Khan, or US servicemen? Do they denounce those who cut off heads in the manner of Ghengis Khan today, or denounce their jailers? Do they denounce third world tyrants and terrorists slaughtering their own people, or call them freedom fighters and insurgents struggling for national liberation? Which did Michael Moore call them? Did the rest of the left denounce him, or fawn over him? Do they read Fanon in multiculturist classes to raise consciousness about the justified violence of the oppressed, or denounce him as a murderer and justifier of murderers? Did they do anything about the latest genocide, on Clinton's watch? Or did they just watch? Did they claim afterward they didn't know, when we know now they were listening to the radio reports and knew exactly?

Last, I have a question. What does Durbin think ought to be done about Nazis, Stalinists, and murderous thugs like Pol Pot? Does he propose we give them tea and cookies? Does he regard such enemies as worth lifting a finger to stop? Does he believe war is justified against such enemies? Or does he think one must let live, and leave such people alone? Is he leaving American soldiers, Bush, Rumsfeld, the Pope, Sharon, Israelis - alone? If Durbin lived in a Nazi regime, a real Nazi regime with Goerings in charge of the police, would he talk as he does? Since he talks as he does, does he believe himself he lives in a ruthless, unjust, tyrannical regime? Wouldn't he act rather differently if he did? Since he clearly doesn't but says such things, who is he actually defending?

What does the modern left have against mass murderers again? Aren't they the greatest cheerleaders and interference runners for mass murderers the world has yet seen?

[mware]

Congressman Moran and Conyers comes in a close second.